About five years ago this very film intrigued me enough to buy "The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain". It contains "The Mysterious Stranger", which this clip is based off of. It was the last novel attempt (but unfinished) by Twain before his death.

Toward the end of Twain`s life, he went through much personal and financial pain and became a very bitter man. His later works were dark and pessimistic. He wrote venomously about "the damned human race".

this is older than the old lady that lives on my old block in an old house on an old hill with some old trees and an old owl who goes "old! old!" for some reason and his old friend who is an old crow named older oldenson